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I make paintings that depict curious characters, often
caught up in extraordinary situations. Over the last ten years, my
artistic career has also explored similar scenarios through performance,
music, printmaking, drawing, writing and sculpture. A childhood
surrounded by books on art history and religious iconography has perhaps meant
that realist painting remains particularly close to my creative
preoccupations.

I enjoy painting's almost limitless ability to provide
alternate realities, some thing that is only tempered by the counterfeit nature
of that reality. This seems comparable to the inherent artifice that one
finds in the realms of theatre and film that my work often draws inspiration
from. I enjoy staging scenarios like a director and teasing out the
narrative potential of a scene, with mood and atmospherics often preoccupying
my decision-making.

In the spirit of
magical-realist fiction, the conduit for my life experiences is an uncanny realm
sitting somewhere between reality and fiction, horror and humour, fantasy and
fact, beauty and ugliness.